Presentations

• Posted by Raymond Chen  on  Nov 01, 2013
  The Evolution of Windows: WinRT

  Raymond Chen tells the story of Windows’ API evolution from the beginning up to its latest version, WinRT.

  Raymond Chen

  on  Nov 01, 2013

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• Posted by Joshua Suereth  on  Oct 31, 2013
  Scaling out with Akka Actors

  Joshua Suereth designs a scalable distributed search service with Akka and Scala using actors, and covering practical aspects of how to scale out with Akka’s clustering API.

  Joshua Suereth

  on  Oct 31, 2013

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• Posted by Guillaume LaForge  on  Oct 30, 2013
  Lift-off with Groovy 2.1

  Guillaume Laforge introduces some of the new features in Groovy 2.1: better Invoke Dynamic, DSL-related annotation, grouping annotations, compiler customization.

  Guillaume LaForge

  on  Oct 30, 2013

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• Posted by Martin Odersky  on  Oct 28, 2013
  The Trouble With Types

  Martin Odersky outlines the main categories of static type systems as well as some new developments, and discuss the tradeoffs they make.

  Martin Odersky

  on  Oct 28, 2013

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• Posted by Jeff Beck  on  Oct 28, 2013
  Using Forked/Unreleased Grails Plug-ins

  Jeff Beck discusses 3 ways of dealing with a large number of Grails plug-ins: checked-in plugin directory, inline plugins, and custom repository

  Jeff Beck

  on  Oct 28, 2013

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• Posted by Jason Steele  on  Oct 26, 2013
  Developing Cross Platform Apps using Xamarin and MvvmCross

  Jason Steele, Jake Henning conduct a hands-on session building a cross-platform mobile C# application for Android, iOS and Windows Phone using Xamarin and MvvmCross.

  Jason Steele

  on  Oct 26, 2013

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• Posted by Gary Fredericks  on  Oct 24, 2013
  Swearjure

  Gary Fredericks shows some tricks for getting the most out of Clojure obfuscated code.

  Gary Fredericks

  on  Oct 24, 2013

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• Posted by Reza Rahman  on  Oct 20, 2013
  Building Java HTML5/WebSocket Applications with JSR 356

  Reza Rahman examines the efforts under way with JSR 356 to support WebSocket from its base-level integration in the Java Servlet and Java EE containers to a new API and toolset included in Java.

  Reza Rahman

  on  Oct 20, 2013

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• Posted by Dominique Louis  on  Oct 18, 2013
  History of MonoGame

  Dominique Louis covers the history of MonoGame from its roots in XNA and how the team ported it to 8 platforms. He demoes taking a simple 3D XNA sample from Windows to Android and Windows Phone 8.

  Dominique Louis

  on  Oct 18, 2013

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• Posted by Runar Bjarnason  on  Oct 17, 2013
  Purely Functional I/O

  Runar Bjarnason explains how to approach I/O from a purely functional perspective, exploring the space of existing solutions, their benefits, and drawbacks.

  Runar Bjarnason

  on  Oct 17, 2013

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• Posted by Jeff Lawson  on  Oct 16, 2013
  Keynote: Jeff Lawson on Software Development

  Jeff Lawson shares some of the lessons learned in his career and discusses the current trends in software and challenges developers have to face.

  Jeff Lawson

  on  Oct 16, 2013

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• Posted by Philipp Haller  on  Oct 14, 2013
  Scala Async: A New Way to Simplify Asynchronous Code (Make the Compiler Do It!)

  Philipp Haller explains how to do asynchronous programming in Scala with Scala Async, Futures and Promises.

  Philipp Haller

  on  Oct 14, 2013

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